CARBONDALE – Steve’s Guitars has booked consecutive nights of live music by national touring acts this weekend, followed by a special Tuesday gig with the Mississippi Delta blues of Reverend Peyton’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blues posters, pictures and drawings are displayed for sale at Cat Head Delta Blues and Folk Art in Clarksdale, MS. The Delta ...

In the 47 years since Bonnie Raitt released her debut album, one thing hasn’t changed for the guitarist and singer: a deep, abiding love of the Delta blues. “One person on a guitar or slide guitar is ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Charles “D.C.” Carnes found a fitting way to pay tribute to the late Robert Lockwood, Jr. Carnes, a longtime guitarist in Lockwood’s band, named his new album, “Delta Crossroads - ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original ...

Guitarist Samantha Fish grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where classic rock radio and a local club lead her to the stage. She studied Delta blues guitar players, as well as Bonnie Raitt and Slash, to ...

Recently, Tom Gray arrived at the Brick Store Pub in Decatur looking for all the world like a rock star. Gray, a longtime Decatur resident and the leader of the Atlanta blues band Delta Moon, had ...

The blues took form in the Mississippi Delta and nearby river towns, where Black workers used song to mark time, trade news, and voice grief under Jim Crow rules. Travel to these places adds context ...

Today marks the 41 st anniversary of the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi, the world’s first museum dedicated to preserving the Blues of the past (and the state’s oldest music museum).

In the 47 years since Bonnie Raitt released her debut album, one thing hasn’t changed for the guitarist and singer: a deep, abiding love of the Delta blues. “One person on a guitar or slide guitar is ...

The Delta stretches across northwestern Mississippi like a big fallen leaf, tucked between two rivers. It spans 220 miles north to south and, at its widest, 87 miles east to west. How can so many ...